About

Erica Quinn is an artist, an educator, a community catalyst, a cultural strategist, a facilitator, and an advocate for inclusive and equitable arts ecosystems.

Quinn serves as the Executive Director of the arts community space 3 Dots (State College, PA), a dynamic hub connecting international arts experiences in rural spaces through initiatives with an unparalleled, eclectic group of non-profit, creative community, university, and civic partners spanning the region. 3 Dots, repeatedly named Best Community Space, stewards grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Knight Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, PA Humanities, and a host of local and regional foundations. 

Quinn has served as the Co-Producer of Rhoneymeade Fest, an annual 4-Day artist-run arts and music festival routing artists from across the US and world, is a member of the State College Entrepreneur Group, and sits on the Downtown State College Improvement District’s Retail Advisory Committee. Quinn is an adjunct instructor teaching and writing arts administration and international arts courses in the College of Arts & Architecture at Penn State University.

Quinn’s artistic practice focuses on the meaning of place and space, integrating analog photography utilizing expired film, moving image, poetry, and improvisational sound installation. Excavating the complexities of memory and loss, this work articulates an occupation of liminal spaces and times. 

Erica Quinn graduated from Juniata College in 2010 with a B.A. in Photography & Literature and earned her M.F.A. in Photography from the Pratt Institute in 2013.